Without being able to go to every game in person, or find out otherwise, with the depth of coverage that a sport like football gets say, it's difficult to know everything that's going on, especially goalkeeping wise! But it turns out Mercian have added to the wearers' ranks, with the inclusion of Wimbledon's Tom Millington. Up until recently, Millington had been wearing Obo for his whole playing career, although in his time at Exeter he switched to a Mercian lhp (left hand glove), presumably to do with rebound control and directing deflections with more power etc. (Obo's are designed to drop the ball to the floor to kick away). He's wearing an Itech ice hockey mask as opposed to the Obo one he used to wear (probably down to sponsorship agreements etc. if he is sponsored; assume he is!). He also wore an elbow pad some of the time, in his time with GBU21's and Loughborough, but think he's permanently switched to no arm pads whatsoever, as common practise with enough national league starters, as he was at Exeter at least.
You can see him in action in the top of the table clash against Holcombe here:
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